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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 23
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Job seeks the Lord and asserts his own righteousness—He says: When the Lord has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
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Then</span> Job answered and said,
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Even to day <i>is</i> my <sup>a</sup><a href="job/23/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 34: 41.">complaint</a> bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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Oh that I knew where I might find him!  <i>that</i> I might come <i>even</i> to his seat!
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I would order <i>my</i> cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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I would know the words <i>which</i> he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
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Will he plead against me with <i>his</i> great power?  No; but he would put <sup>a</sup><a href="job/23/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 3."><i>strength</i></a> in me.
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There the righteous might <sup>a</sup><a href="job/23/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Disputations.">dispute</a> with him; so should I be <sup>b</sup><a href="job/23/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 19 (18-19); D&C 108: 8.">delivered</a> for ever from my judge.
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Behold, I go forward, but he <i>is</i> not <i>there;</i> and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
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On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold <i>him:</i> he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see <i>him:</i>
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But he <sup>a</sup><a href="job/23/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Omniscience of.">knoweth</a> the way that I take: <i>when</i> he hath <sup>b</sup><a href="job/23/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Test, Try, Prove.">tried</a> me, I shall come forth as gold.
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My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary <i>food.</i>
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But he <i>is</i> in one <i>mind,</i> and who can turn him?  and <i>what</i> his soul desireth, even <i>that</i> he doeth.
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For he performeth <i>the thing that is</i> appointed for me: and many such <i>things are</i> with him.
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Therefore am I <sup>a</sup><a href="job/23/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 45: 3.">troubled</a> at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
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For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
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Because I was not cut off before the darkness, <i>neither</i> hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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